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Old 11-25-2008, 09:01 AM   #87
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Originally Posted by mykalberta View Post
Lord of the Flies basically had it right. Humanity at its core is evil and its only the societal norms in place that keep us from falling into chaos.
Bull hooey.

If that were true we never would have been able to construct societies in the first place, we'd constantly be collapsing into chaos. The lessons of history are that humanity will always attempt to find and create some kind of stable order, the nature of that order will depend on the number of people and the environmental situation.

Humanity, at its core, is a reproductive engine. In a 'primitive' state we will do what is necessary to ensure our own survival. If you're going to declare that 'evil' then you have to call lions evil for eating their young, or female spiders evil for killing their mates.
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